ACCESS

Hola! If you go to the website http://accessdl.state.al.us/ you will find all the information you need for the Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and students statewide. This is a program designed to give high school students the chance to take AP class that they might not other wise have the opportunity to take. These classes are offered via Internet, with videoconferencing and uses all kinds of computer programs. This program will help upgrade computer labs to H. 323 standards, making them able to accommodate the ACCESS students. This program comes with pros and cons, some benefits are, expands the reach of education and, increase in student responsibility for eduction. Some of the cons are, no one-on-one contact between students and teachers, and teachers have to be able to use and understand all equipment and programs used for the course. However, the pros out weigh the cons because students are learning things they might not have ever learned and they are learning about computers at the same time.

I strongly agree with the ACCESS program, i think it gives students a chance to learn new things. In the world today everything revolves around computers, this program will help them learn about computers and how to use many of the programs on the computer. Courses like these are also helpful when it comes to preparing students for college, many universities offer online classes which some people find difficult, but with this program they will already have the knowledge and responsibility to know how to take an online class.
-Hanna